> NBC comes face-to-face with its post-football Sunday. NBC:  No doubt the network thought that whatever the quality of its new series version of John Grisham’s THE FIRM (and that quality is quite bad), name value alone would bring it an audience.  Well, not so much:  its disastrous 1.4 put it in last place for […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  It was fall finale night, and STATION 19 gained 0.05 to 0.50, with GREY’S ANATOMY up 0.11 to 0.51.  Both will return on February 23.  A promo run of Hulu’s REASONABLE DOUBT was at 0.23, up 0.06 from last week’s episode of ALASKA DAILY (albeit with a higher lead-in). CBS:  YOUNG […]

> America is willing to follow FOX behind bars. FOX:  The 2-hour launch of ALCATRAZ went very well, with a solid 3.3 that held throughout the broadcast.  That put the network squarely in 2d place for the night behind CBS’s blockbuster line-up.  If the show can manage not to collapse the way Terra Nova did, […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 49: November 28-December 4, 2022 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: […]

> It turns out there are some numbers so low that even NBC can’t endure them.  After an inconceivably bad 0.8 rating for THE FIRM last night–lower than most network shows score in reruns, and only 0.1 ahead of The Secret Circle on CW–NBC finally pulled the trigger and will push the show to the […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.56/0.25/0.19. CBS:  Reruns at 0.39/0.29/0.25. NBC:  THE WHEEL was down 0.03 from last Tuesday to 0.30, followed by reruns at 0.24/0.22/0.18. FOX:  Reruns at 0.18/0.14. CW:  OCEAN EMERGENCY was at 0.04. TELEMUNDO:  EXATLON dropped 0.02 to 0.24, REINA DEL SUR lost 0.02 to 0.20, and AMOR Y TRAICION was […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK lost 0.03 to 0.52, and 20/20 was down 0.08 to 0.41. CBS:  SWAT was steady at 0.46, FIRE COUNTRY gained 0.04 to 0.52, and BLUE BLOODS ticked up to 0.42. NBC:  LOPEZ VS LOPEZ rose 0.04 to 0.33, YOUNG ROCK held at 0.27, and DATELINE fell 0.17 to 0.32. […]

>The top two programs on cable this week aired on Sunday against the not-what-it-used-to-be but still very big Academy Awards on ABC.  Most notable was Walking Dead on AMC at 9:00 pm, just when the awards ceremony was getting rolling.  Facing the huge entertainment special, Walking Dead actually was up over last week, from a […]